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Chief of Defence Forces Gen Tan Sri Affendi Buang said the establishment of MAF’s Cyber and Electromagnetic Division last year would shore up the capabilities of the country in cyber and electronic warfare. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 Chief of Defence Force Gen Tan Sri Affendi Buang says he is satisfied with the current line-up of Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) assets.
He said this was evidenced by the involvement of the MAF and its assets to perform essential tasks such as patrolling, monitoring, information gathering and other support tasks.
Published on: Tuesday, December 29, 2020
By: Bernama
Photo: Bernama
Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) confirmed that there was a cyber attack on its data network yesterday.
ATM Commander General Tan Sri Affendi Buang (
pictured, second from left) said the incident was detected by the Defence Cyber and Electromagnetic Division (BSEP), as well as the ATM Cyber Defence Operations Centre (CDOC).
However, he said the attack only involved certain segments that had been placed out of the network from the very beginning and did not affect the actual operation of the portal.
ADVERTISEMENT Soon as the attack began, BSEP and CDOC implemented data traffic segregation for the purpose of obscuring the actual location of the classified data and thus protecting the network targeted by hackers.
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